Une femme peut-elle diriger les Services Secrets? (POLITICO)

L'article est signé par deux femmes qui luttent pour une meilleure représentation des femmes dans des positions de leadership. Belle réflexion nuancée.

" But now that yet another woman—and one called in to clean up her male predecessor’s mess—has been shown the door, women in leadership are again asking, Is the problem us or them? The answer: In some instances, both.

Social scientists tell us that when women and minorities shatter the glass ceiling, they tend to do so when their company is on the skids or their agency self-destructing. They call it the glass cliff because these opportunities often place newly-minted minority or women leaders in immediately precarious positions.

But let’s begin with the obvious. Julia Pierson was chosen as Secret Service director at the wrong time for the wrong reasons to do the wrong job. The Washington Post reported that Pierson, albeit dealing with a significantly reduced budget, called for the White House protective unit to be cut by one-third—this, for a president who has been the target of more threats than any other in history. There is no margin for error in an agency charged with protecting the president, his family and other federal officials. It’s a job for a pit bull, not a technocrat. And in this, Pierson failed.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/julia-pierson-secret-service-111600.html?hp=pm_1#.VDAqUfl5M1I